I've been trying to find out if four blades or two blades is better in image quality, on the off chance anyone can answer here let me know. Great video though, good info.
@@LionTree hi! And thanks for watching. To build this I followed the plans on the following website. www.scary-terry.com/vortex/vt.htm This thing has served me well for so many years. I still use it to this day! I did not think about adding it to the description. Sorry. I'm going to pin a comment with this web page. Hope your escape room build goes well!
Love this idea. I'm going to try this with a 7" raspberry pi monitor and one of those cellphone screen enhancers that enlarge the screen to laptop size. That should hide it more and be able to move it further away
I love this video! Such great examples giving me ideas to go on. Have you tried adding a ball valve in instead of moving it out for the air gap? I have a few atmosphere fx screens i use to project outside but it really needs to be dark for it to look great. I wonder if i can add this setup to it so it looks brighter!
I’m making a Roberts Fogger this year and am super excited! I bought the 10 head mister but am wondering about the float. I’m a super novice when it comes to stuff. Do I need a float for the mister or can I just plunk the mister into the bottom of the “chiller box”?
Hi! thank you! And I can't wait to hear about your build. The simple answer is, yes, you should definitely use a float. There is an optimum depth for the misting unit to function properly. As fog passes through and leaves the chiller, it will bring a lot of the water vapor out with it. This will lower your water height. Eventually the misting unit will stop functioning with a water level drops too low. The float will allow you to have a deeper chamber of water while maintaining the proper operating depth. The missing unit will not work at all if there is too much water above it. Again, that's where the float is helpful. I really hope this helps. And wishing you awesome luck for your build!
@@intocoasters Thank you for that informative reply! You explained it so I could understand right away why a float will be good to have! I’ve been watching so many of your videos! Thank you for sharing your builds with all of us! Your Roberts fogger is awesome and your video is shared in many Facebook Halloween groups!
Very cool, but wow is that an elaborate way to do the servos! :) I have been working on a board with a couple of friends that is based on the "Jawduino" but controls a bunch more. It's basically an arduino nano and an mp3 player that will sync the jaw servo with anything that is on the mp3 SD card, it also operates 4 other servos to do random movements at different speeds and operates LEDs etc. Hopefully, I'll have a video of it up soon. I really love the look of that pumpkin head man!
Looks awesome. I like the new character. The Servos to potentiometer seems like a clunky way to do that, too bad there isn't a better way to interface the board. If it's PWM, could you charge a capacitor to build up a DC level... hmmm... maybe it's not as responsive. That's a tough one to think about, but I like the character
Yes indeed it is clunky... and has a lag. But I am not any good at altering arduino code to read the LOR servo outputs instead of the joystick. My first attempt was to control the joystick directly with servos - that was a disaster. This iteration is much more compact and reliable. But I am sure it could be tighter with a direct connection between the LOR controller and the arduino uno. I just don't know what to rewrite to make it happen. And thank you! This guy has been a blast to build! I can't wait to show off the entire puppet when complete!
@@ge2719 you are correct! The pot in the servo tells the motor when it has reached the target position. That's internal feedback for the motor itself. The pots outside, like in a joystick or a radio controler, those tell the servo motor what the target is. When you move the joystick you're turning a potentiometer to a certain position between 0 and 100% of its value (this will affect a PWM signal that is sent to the servo) The servo motor then moves to try to match that value. That's kind of an oversimplified version of how it works.
@@allthingscoolandcommon5161 Thank you very much! These kind of builds are always fun to share. I'm hoping this guy turns out like the vision I have of him in my head. Should be an amusing addition to the existing trio.
hey @intocoasters. i am anne, from holland, and i have also a dark ride at home, it does need to be set up and then taken down again, but that didn't make the fun xD. but i have IR sensors, a motor driver, multiple, one to max 20amps, and other to 30amps and one to 60amps, continue current, a 250w motor, a battery deep cycle 47ah. i have it all good hooked up, from battery to fuseholder, to motor driver h bridge, and back to the battery, and motor positive by positive and negative by negative. i have the ground to a esp32 arduino board, and the L_PWM and R_PWM connected to the positive of the line that i also have the ir sensors vcc having connected, and also connected to the esp32, and i have the L_EN and R_EN connected to the 2 ir sensors, one apart. but now the tricky is, i have ir sensors that have a power light, and a indicator light, by signal, but as i have the output of the sensors connected, to the l_en and the r_en, the indicator light will always be on, also if there is no signal from the sensor itself. how can i fix this? it seems that there going signal through the l_en and r_en lines, that will always will the ir sensors turned on. it is also that the sensors if connected, that they are very hot. do you have a connecting diagram, how i can connect it? if so, you can send it me via mail or via a link, of dropbox. this is my mail: anneschepers108@gmail.com. thanks for helping. I got a lot from your tutorials or update videos. very nice videos :) greetings from holland. regards Anne Schepers
This is brilliant, and exactly one of the reasons the internet was created. I am building two of these: one for a home tiki bar, and another for Halloween. You, sir, are brilliant. Also: "Alas, Poor Yorick." 😂 Thank you for contributing the the greater bandwidth of fx knowledge. All hail the Roberts Fogger!!!
Yay! Somebody mentions the Yorik reference. Lol Thank you so much for the kind words! This is kind of my way of 'paying it back' so to speak. I can't remember if I mentioned in the video, but so many of my early Halloween projects were based off of others sharing their own projects on the internet before the days of RU-vid. I am intrigued how you will be using this with a tiki bar. I'd love to see a video of it in action if that's okay. Thank you again, you made my day.
@@intocoasters I will definitely keep you posted. I need to start sharing some of my FX hacks and I like how you are paying it forward. That's how the global knowledge community works. Thanks again. I was approached recently about low-lying fog and I had recommended the old 55 gallon barrel with hot water muffin fan and dry ice, but this is a game changer.
Thank you so much! I am not familiar with some of the techniques in those puppets such as latex mold casting. And I don't think I'm very good at painting, lol. But the witch and skeleton you see here were off the shelf static props that I cut apart and put servo motors into them. So I suppose anything is possible. Those Axtel puppets are super expressive, I love them!
So this is using a mister instead of burning fog juice correct? This lays lower than even the dry ice fig machine I have, im fascinated with this but I cant believe it still.
It's still heats fog juice, that happens in the fog machine sitting on top of the unit. Once the hot fog comes out of your standard fog machine it then runs through the chamber that's filled with mist. The fog particles cling on to the water vapor and there's some thermal energy transfer when this happens which both cools it down and makes it heavier. At least that's how I understand how it works. Thanks for watching!
I don't honestly know the answer to that. I suspect probably not, but if you find a way to make it work then please post a video about it! I know I'm not the only one who would like to see that.
I'm impressed. I've been working on my fan for days. I can't even get it to link to my tablet/phone via wifi. Apparently my fan has an internal memory plus it accepts an SD card, but it will only run the internal memory videos. It works on a 3D Magic app. Can I bring my fan to you? Any ideas?
wow, that was freaking awesome . I like how you explained it in such detail. You can only appreciate something once you understand it . Thanks for sharing your creativity
<3 glad I found your channel brother. to help you out if you're interested (your design is awesome b.t.w) as a retired Disc jockey and a Lighting and fog enthusiast, I recommend the American dj "Fog Fury 1000 II". It's a very good price, and can handle the Thickest of Fog fluids. it's very powerful too. 1000watts. Also... adding a Good fog scent to the fluid will add that extra spooky effect.
I subscribed within 30 seconds. I've seem a lot of attempts at these screens, generally in three groups - ultrasonic water, hot fog, and chilled fog. Professionals seem to use chilled fog, and you're the first (only?) video to nail it.
That is some seriously tiny work you've done and I can appreciate how delicate those bits and things you're using. So, I purchased a digital microscope to do detailed electronics work and it's the only way I can do some of the things these days. I got one of those $250 jobbers that Adam Savage recommended on his channel, the Andonstar AD249S-M and it works for my purposes, I'm not crazy about the base and stand that limit it's reach, I need a better stand for it that gives me clearance. I can say that it's a lot better than one of those large lenses on an arm. I might need to find a "real" version of this.
Nice work, mate. I will be having a coaster day later this year. Travelling to Western N.C. to see family and Dollywood is on the list of things to do.
Believe it or not, my very first "roller coaster" model was a pair of garden hoses running parallel from a table to the ground then over some bricks. I used golf balls for the cars. LoL A good starting model that is super customizable is CDX Blocks. Hope you build something awesome!
LOL 😂 "UP STOP". I didn't know what you were saying at first and then it clicked. It "stops" it from going "up" and off the track. I'm on board. I'm watching it again. Cheers 🥂
Hi!!! Yes, I believe it was car number two. I believe your up-stop blocks were made of plastic... Are there may have been an incident. One of the plastic blocks may have cracked during that incident. Parts of it might have never been recovered to this day. Maybe. Yeah.... I had to make up stop dogs for car number 2 at one point. But, knowing it can be done helped me go forward with a train full of them.
@intocoasters This is a fantastic model coaster! I love how you added a 2nd train and control system. You explain it all very well, too! I'm teaching ME and EE seniors at CalStateLA, and one of their team projects is to build a working model coaster with a control system. I'd love to talk with you. Can we connect?
How long would that Fog/MIst last in a larger walled vinyl tent? How long will a jug of juice go, as in how sustained can you run the machine and create effect off one jug?
Hey a colleague and I built this a while back for a project and want to cite you in the credits of the project! How would you want to be cited? Thanks again for making such stellar videos and helping the community so much with all these tutorials.
Well that's fun! Thank you. I guess my name, Eric, and the channel name "intocoasters" would be fine. And thank you for watching the videos. I learned so much online from people before me, I feel like making these tutorials helps pay them back as well as pay it forward.. Happy haunting!
My dude....I've been drinking so Imma sound stupid. I got my fan working. It's awesome. I was sent the library but it was mediocre. Where do I find cool stuff to download though?!! I'll work on making my own stuff later but that green skull thing is the direction I wanna go.
Congrats on getting it working!. The green skull comes from a company called the atmosfear fx. I can't remember which collection. Maybe phantasms? Their website is quite good and let you browse the videos before purchase. Atmosfx.com is what I mostly use.
Your Taylor Swift is very fun! I've included a link to the servo that I used for tilt motion. Your videos remind me that I really need to add movement to the arms of my characters. LoL amzn.to/4bs2ujF